Something’s cooking on Enceladus

Hydrothermal mix of heat, water and rock forged silica particles that Saturn’s moon flings into space, researchers argue

BUBBLING BREW  Hot water mixing with a rocky core on Enceladus, seen in this artist’s illustration, may be spewing a trail of silica nanoparticles into one of Saturn’s rings.

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The core of Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be cooking the water in its subsurface sea.